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EPC/RFID: An effective method for realtime asset management

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) had thousands of assets and medical devices to manage across the trust’s three acute sites.
EPC/RFID: An effective method for realtime asset management
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But with no digital or automated solution in place, efficiently tracking its extensive asset inventory of 1,470 beds and 37,000 medical devices became a near impossible task.

Given the benefits of RFID (radio frequency identification) in retail to provide accurate stock visibility, the trust opted to introduce passive UHF EPC/RFID tagging as a means to track and trace the high-value equipment in the trust’s medical equipment library.

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